[ eddie lifts his left hand to run through his hair, then rubs at the back of his neck before he drops it to fiddle with the rings on his right. always moving, trying to channel the sense of dread and nervousness into something else.

he looks over at azul and frowns, looks down and then back up. ] Look, man, I saw monsters pretty recently. Before that, I would have completely agreed but one day you think the world is a safe place and the next monsters are trying to eat you.

[ he shakes his head, thinking back to the demo-bats that had hunted them and wanted to make buckley, wheeler, harrington and him into their next meal. he looks back out at the archway, toward the fog. ] It's never that easy. Killing the big bad, it's not like the fantasy books. [ and jesus, eddie wants to go back to those. ]